When Less is More: Relevance Feedback Falls Short and Term Expansion Succeeds at HARD 2005
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We used clarification forms to study passage term feedback. When compared against pseudo-relevance feedback with an extremely large external corpus, we found that passage feedback resulted in a reduction in performance while term feedback significantly improved recall.
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When Less is More: Relevance Feedback Falls Short and Term Expansion Succeeds at HARD 2005 (Notebook Version)
We used clarification forms to study passage term feedback. When compared against pseudo-relevance feedback with an extremely large external corpus, we found that passage feedback resulted in a reduction in performance while term feedback significantly improved recall.
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